Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Kraus

The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.

Kanye West

The media crucify me like they did Christ.

Julian Fellowes

I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?

Margot Robbie

Obviously social media has had a massive impact on the fame game, but not in a positive way. But it can be for some.

Paul Krugman

Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine.

Owen Wilson

I respectfully ask that the media allow me to receive care and heal in private during this difficult time.

Joe Arpaio

The day I leave, you won't know how to pronounce my name. You could care less about me, and I should be dead and buried because there's not one media that will come and remember who Joe Arpaio is. That's the way it is in politics.

Joe Arpaio

I don't rely on the media. I usually average one speech a day for 25 years. People know me because I'm out there.

Lou Dobbs

The idea that a reporter has to be 'fair and balanced' is ridiculous. The fact is, the truth usually is not fair and it's not balanced. Truth stands by itself. And the idea that something called fair and balanced is a substitute for truth and fact is mindless nonsense that has captured much of the national media.

Jon Stewart

I have become increasingly unnerved by the depth of corruption that exists at many different levels. I'm less upset with politicians than [with] the media.

Jon Stewart

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. That's all it is. All those media companies say, "We're going to make a killing here." You won't because it's still only as good as the content.

Jon Stewart

The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.

Jon Stewart

The press has bravely and nobly eroded the public trust... What I'm advocating is the media come work for us again. Remove themselves from the symbiotic relationship that they have developed with the power structure of corporations and of the politicians.

Kate Walsh

Everything also calms down with the influx of social media, there's so much happening all the time.

Kate Adie

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

James Madison

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

James L. Buckley

The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions.

James L. Brooks

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

Erik Qualman

Social media has made the web all about me, me, me.

Erik Qualman

Increasingly, consumers don't search for products and services. Rather, services come to their attention via social media.

Erik Qualman

Why are we trying to measure social media like a traditional channel anyway? Social media touches every facet of business and is more an extension of good business ethics.

Erik Qualman

Pushing a company agenda on social media is like throwing water balloons at a porcupine.

Erik Qualman

Social Media isn’t a fad, it’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate.

Erik Qualman

The power of social media is it forces necessary change.

Erik Qualman

The ROI of social media is that your business will still exist in 5 years.

Erik Qualman

The beauty of social media is that it will point out your company's flaws; the key questions is how quickly you address these flaws.

Erik Qualman

With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues.

Eric Sevareid

The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.

John McCain

In California, it's hard to buy all the media, no matter how much money you raise or spend, because it's such a huge state.

John McCain

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

John Hockenberry

The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.

John Hodgman

We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts each of us on the same footing as the major media conglomerates, except for AOL, who now apparently own all our thoughts and teeth.

John Hodgman

I am not an Internet superstar. I am, ironically perhaps, the most old media superstar of all time. My fame is due to broadcast television.